What is the legendary "Marshal Wen"?

Wang Zhongjing, the grandfather of Wenzhou Dongyue, is a local folk belief god. From an out-and-out Wenzhou native, he was praised to heaven. According to Lian's Inscription, "Xingwen Mingqiong was born in Pingyang, Wenzhou. Tang Changan was born for two years until he was twenty-six. Because of his poor promotion, he became a god and saved the people's disaster. "Said the sea" said "Pingyang Baishi Street people also. "

But folklore is more humanistic: there is a scholar named Wen Qiong (also known as Lingyuan) in Pingyang County. One night, because I was reading at night, I heard someone whispering outside the window, "There are many people pumping water from this well, so it is very effective to put it here." Ling went out to watch, but didn't see anything, and later called it an epidemic ghost. In the morning, Ling stood by the well to stop people from pumping water. The public doesn't believe him. Ling was thrown into the well and died as a token of his heart. After being fished out by everyone, he was poisoned and blue. Later, he was named Wang Zhongjing, Marshal of Mount Tai. The gods he worships are blue face, blue hand and blue face. Because he is a Wenzhou native, he is given the surname Wen, commonly known as "Marshal Wen", and is the god of expelling epidemics, usually called Lord Dongyue. At the beginning of March every year, "the people will ask the king to go out of the temple and patrol the inside and outside of the city to drive out the plague." Meng's Anecdotal Miscellaneous Notes of Dong 'ou proves: "Dongyue is the so-called Marshal Wen in Hangzhou, and Marshal Wen is green." Therefore, the twenty-fifth fold of Mulian's drama of saving the mother has "At the end of the dance, Marshal Wen plays the blue face and holds the hammer." In fact, King Wen Zhongjing of Dongyue Temple in Dongyue Temple Lane, Lucheng District has a blue face, which shows that folklore is based on facts and is by no means subjective. It stands to reason that Marshal Wen's "green face and fangs, lying with his eyes open" is his true colors. He died of the plague because he took the plague medicine (talking about the orb). Marshal Wen in some land and water paintings and ghost paintings in the Ming and Qing dynasties is a green face. In fact, regardless of evil or good, it is important to punish evil and promote good and uphold justice.

Wang Zhongjing in Wenzhou rose from an out-and-out Wenzhou native to a god, reflecting and reflecting Wenzhou folk's belief in god. "God" is actually the personification of human beings. Because he did good things for the people before his death, people worshipped him, commemorated him and sacrificed him after his death, which embodied and inherited a cultural concept and humanistic spirit.